Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 21, Hammond, Lake County, 28 June 1919 — Page 6

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THE TIMES. .June 28, 1019.

SIZE NIX,

SAYS RYAN

FIGHTERS

WEIGHTS OF JACK AND JESS NOW INDICATE LITTLE

Best Middleweight That Ever Lived Gives Them the Once Over.

By TAD f STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERV1CE1

Tt'LKDU. .. June wTornmy Kn. ! rated as one of the best middleweight ' fighters that ever lned. g.n.e the big i boys the north and south yesterday af-i ternoon. Tommy believes that size ( doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the ; prize ring, j "Yes, I'll admit that Wlllird If a mons- i ter." said the Syracuse Hindoo. "But i listen. I licked livorg Jaler in Hot ' Springs years ago and he was exactly , the same size as Wiilard If the big : man isn't as good as the little nun he

has no chance. Ivmpsey's rush? Yes. : it is rood. I'd like to see him in a fight, j though. J "Tou know there are two ways of ! rushing In a fight. tie way is to tear j in s you would in a street fight. That's j no (rood. The other way is to rush in j and play checkers with the other fel- j low's leads. That is the way to force a J f.ght. ! "Dempsey, bobbing this way and that, j will bother "Wiilard. I?nt his hands j must work, tob; he must have an idea ; with his bobbing. I noticed him hitting j his sparring rartners on the arms. Yu I know touching thtm as they start. ; punches. That Is a science. Ujat toucii I thing. Jack Johnson was thsgreatest man In the world at that stuff. j "Tou see. when a man starts a right; you touch him on the arm or shoulder j and the force is gone. It throws him : off. His timing is done for. It kill j

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willahd INVENTS A NECK PUNCH

Jess Wiilard. on left, and Jack Dempsey weighing at their camps after workout. Man with Dempsey is his trainer, Jimmy De Forest.

the. other fellow every time. I like , Pempsey for that. ! "Greatest fighter I ever knew? Jim ' Corbett classed by himself. No one j nar him. Jeff? Another wonder. Wiilard is a big man. but he isn't wide like Jeffries. No. Wiilard Is high, that's all. J No chest, shoulders or back lilt old Jeff. I'd like to see Jeff fight Jess. See j

you ja.ier. Jack Curley. who was manager of Wiilard. when the latter fought Jack Johnson at Havana, was one of the lobbyists at the Seoor today. "I Just saw Wiilard." said Jack, "and toll him that I had bet $500 against him. Told him right to his face and got a big laugh out of him. Told him to keep out of my sight, too. because

The recent announcement from Jack Dernpsey's camp that he weighed 201 rounds was the basis for considerable comment at the time. Coupled with the report at the same time that Wiilard weigh

ed under 250 pounds it caused the busrs to believe that Dempsey wouldn't be handicapped so much after all in wftiprht. But Dernpsey's weight was taken after he had been idle a week while humoring a

cut over his eye. Willard's weight taken after a workout, caught him at his best. He takes on a couple of pounds over nijrht. The weight of the men when they meet canno be estimated from these figures.

every time I see him he sterns to be tugeer. "Jess is a good fighter, but rvmpsey is a better one. There's a difference of thirteen years in their ages. Jess hasnt been righting recently and Jnci; has. I'll tell you. no mao cm lay off and come back. Wiilard looks g'od. yes. but it's not from work. It's from dieting. He looks weak to me. There's no bright eye about him at all. He looks dull to me looks like a bilious cow. "He beat Johnson on the level, but

that lefs him out. Tou know at Ha- ; Jess Wiilard is favorite in the hef-var-a we told him day after day and ,' ting again at the lioody house w here night after night that Johnson was an I the hoys chance their dough here. They

are. offering $l,0fn to $300 now or any I

old man. He had that in his noodle all

the time. We tr!d him that all he had to do was to keep Johnson going and that in time he'd tire and fall. Jess never was worried. He just made Johnson do the flghttne and kill himslf oft". It was a i-quare fight. ,

"Dempsey will not let and will rush Jess off hi

J vr. nix- r STAFF CORRESPONDENT I N SERV1CE1 T iLEDi . i), Jurif 2v -Tir- noble athletes who will perform fistie f3tr for a multitude on July 4. are dvotir,g the waning hours of train catrp days to perfecting r- wallops. J. Millard, possessor of the crown which .1 rvmpfey covet, with a lot of covetousnef s. is exhibiting dsilv to the hoi polloi a new crasher which he terms the "neck punch " It is the hope rf J. Wiilard th.-ii by use of this pugilistic soaker he win b, S:!e to clour -,1 h battle ire out of J. Dempsey jn two or three rlouts. In rrhut'al I. Dempsey Is showing something new. whioh j termed a "rib ticklr." and T.lnrh is designed to lmd up against the casing of J. Wiilard' heart hard enough to render the said .T. Wiilard prone long enough for a stammerer to ton out an understandable count of ten. A r.erk pun.-h is something novel In modern ring affairs hut it was a. favor

ite in the old.n days -when the boys knew naucht of padded mits and wielded nothing but "mau!ie." But since th era when gloves came

I into vogue, thus making bigger th

wedge that a man had to stick against the throat of an opponent, ne.-k punches have been quite pas e. Rut Wiilard is going to bring them into style again with a few new frills attached. Not so long ago when .T. Wiilard got the actual data on J. , Dernpsey's size and learned of that low-down crouch. .T. Wiilard probably concluded that belting J. Dempsey upon the lowered chin with

frequen.-y and vigor would be a task rather difficult of frrquept accomplishment. Po J. Wiilard used his thinking regalia and th result is the neck punch. J. Dernpsey's usual custom Is to sail in with with lowered head. H exhibits nothing hittibie but the ramming part of-his dome and i bent neck. And the bent neck is what J. Wiilard plans

wat with reckless abandon but re-

sey. "Oh. ho. oh. ho." exclaimed th enlightened mauler from the salty regions of I'tah. "he don't hey? Well, well, well:" And ever since then J. Dempsey. who earlier spurned the practice of clubbing a gentlemanly foe m the heart region hss changed tactics, at least with his sparring partners. Instead of jUPt slugging away at their dark-hued tummies. ,T. Dempsey every so often 'crosses" them with a right hi"k that feems to be on its way to the stomach, bu' suddenly shift and r'unks with great force against the left ribs of J. Iemp?ey' dusky playmates Both of them light now- will inform

i the world that every time tha' punch

even though Dempsey declares he is only tapping with it lands around their blood pumping apparatus the faithful old pumpers go on temporary strikes. "If that .1. Wiilard Just ge-s one of tno.-e what's got all of .Tack's steam in it good night Mistah Wiilard." predicts Hill Tate, the Goliath who took a layoff F'riday because Dempsey the day before teased him twice with th "lib tit kler." In retort Walter Monahan. official bugler of J. Willard's virtues savs:

"If Jess lands just one of his r.ck I choppers on Dempsey good night Mis- j ter Dempsey." j Therefore one is to aFsume that the ', first gent that lands the new- wallop . wiij win. Who'll it h? 1

GOOD GAME PROMISED FOR HAMMOND FANS

That the old Hammond fans ar promise a steam-winder for Sunday The r,4 (ialligans, familiar to all baseball bu.;s of the. region will come tc Hammond for the f.rst game this year The Caliigans are playing up to their o!d form and have trimmed about everything in sitht so far. Nage ha? been spending all of hi' ready ca.'h this week trvinr to irrt hi

I hands on Tc-te H'nn'.nc Peter is some. what of a mystery. H was seen on thr j t-'reets HaTurda,:,- night and also a' i Louisville. Kv.. a few hours later T-T.

are Sunday dinner at about three differen' places and seems to be visiting everywhere at the same time. Nagel i:

I frantic. li" has burned up the wires ' trying to get a telegram to Pete but t

nate has received arsolureiy no a,nsw-er

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part of it that Wiilard wins. On the pari-mutucl board, where you bet on the rounds without puking the winner, rounds seven and eight are the most popular. Very few pick the early

j rounds and very few pick the eleven: li. any one rest i If you pick the twelfth you must nam" feet. Money your man.

is doing the talking for me. I think Dempsey is a spread. He's a cinch." I

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: markable precision. Someone has tip-( I ped him to the fact that if a few hard j I smashes collide with th- back cf a I n' ck even if it's the neck of a good ' flgh'er it will do a lot toward curing! ! that person of insomnia. j J. Wiilard nurses jut such n hope j ' and goes on perfecting the neck chop- j

rr. Not so long ago J. Dempsey heard i that J. Wiilard has a weakness. "He doesn't like V-m around the j heart." said the informant of J. D?mp-

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: I Five na'ional amateur wrestling; , champions have been entered in the ' i American Industrial Athletic Associa- t i Hon field and track meet to be held in: I Gary. July 4. Four of the national' I grappling title holders are employes of j Gary concerns. They are: Karl Kunert. ' I Stanley Ozarr.ecki, George Treats and ! Glen Smith. i I i I Kunert is holder of both A. A. XT. and '. : T. M. C A. wrestling titles. He won i ' !h 175 pound A. A. U. honors at Birm- ! ingham. Ala., last March and both 175 :

, and heavyweight at Providence. R. I,. ; several weeks later in the T. M. C. A. j meet. He is a crane foreman at the; i ;iry tin mills Kunert Is 24. married i and has two children. i ! F'an'.ey "zarnecki won the A. A. V. i heavyweight championship at Birming-1 ham. Kunert was was one of his vie- j tiins. Stanley is a foreman in the ben-j ' zol labartory at the Illinois Steel Co., j here. J George Trengos holds both the mid-

j dleweight championships of both A. A. ; I', and T. M. C. A. He is a machinist at the Illinois Steel. Glen Smith, a draftsman, employed at

j the Illinois Pteel Co. is holder of the ' welterweight wrestling championship, i i He will defend his title against all ! ! comers July 4 in th A. I. A. A. meet. j j Val V. Volson. a Chicago deaf mute, j

j employed at the Western Electric; Co, ! as a machinist, is entered in the 115 and ! 1 725 pound classes. He is national T. ' M. A. champion in those classes.

Wrfsfling a popular form of sport with the men of the industries. 'While they do not care anything about the professional game, the workers are keen for the amateur sport. In which. th-y claim competition is more 'keen and where there is more action. With the addition of wrestling and horse shoe pitching o the A. I. A. A field meet program a precedent has been established and as a result. future, meets will not be complete without those events.

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